Fu** the grey area on extracts

Every time a person lights a bowl with a lighter, they are huffing butane. Most people smoke more weed than if they smoked dabs. That means multiple huffs off that lighter. With I dab you do 1 tiny piece. You are ingesting WAY more butane when using a lighter to roast a bowl!

OK, so I was told by larger operating caregiver that in Maine extractions are legal until you bring Butane into the equation, co2, rosin, qwiso, etc are OK. Which utterly confused me, his explanation was that those are "natural" solvents or techniques, which stopped me in my tracks...Because man didn't synthesize butane, that would also have to be considered a "natural" solvent. I know there's very little on the topic, but please someone show me cases, statute paragraphs, anything to help me figure out exactly what is punishable by Maine state law. And on a side note, if it is true that butane magically makes it illegal, than how are we expected to do research with our medicine to find out it's full potential...

They are not cracking down on it due to health issues, it is because of purity. They have 99.6% pure thc crystals now. They will crack down on that too, because it is a "hard drug" not because the piggies are worried for peoples health

I haven't heard of any medical patients being arrested for having concentrates.

The new law doesn't say anything about which solvents can be used for extraction, but the product label will need to say what was used.

But even now with legalization, non medical 21+ users are only allowed to have 5 grams of concentrate because of LD88. It would have been 2.5 oz of concentrate if LD88 wasn't an emergency bill. Med patients can still have 2.5 oz of concentrate.

22-A. Marijuana concentrate. "Marijuana concentrate" means the resin extracted from any part of the plant genus cannabis and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation from such resin, including hashish. In determining the weight of marijuana concentrate, the weight of any other ingredient combined with marijuana to prepare a marijuana product may not be included.

1. Person 21 years of age or older. A person 21 years of age or older may:
A. Use, possess or transport marijuana accessories and use, possess or transport up to 2 1/2 ounces of prepared marijuana or a combination of marijuana and marijuana concentrate, which may include no more than 5 grams of marijuana concentrate;
B. Transfer or furnish, without remuneration, up to 2 1/2 ounces of marijuana or a combination of marijuana and marijuana concentrate, which may include no more than 5 grams of marijuana concentrate, and up to 6 immature plants or seedlings to a person who is 21 years of age or older;

In the dark times, hash and anything not leafy was prosecuted under enhanced penalties. You might as well have had heroin. And since they could weigh containers and anything it was put into (brownies), the penalties could be in the decades.

I haven't heard of any medical patients being arrested for having concentrates.

The new law doesn't say anything about which solvents can be used for extraction, but the product label will need to say what was used.

But even now with legalization, non medical 21+ users are only allowed to have 5 grams of concentrate because of LD88. It would have been 2.5 oz of concentrate if LD88 wasn't an emergency bill. Med patients can still have 2.5 oz of concentrate.

22-A. Marijuana concentrate. "Marijuana concentrate" means the resin extracted from any part of the plant genus cannabis and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation from such resin, including hashish. In determining the weight of marijuana concentrate, the weight of any other ingredient combined with marijuana to prepare a marijuana product may not be included.

1. Person 21 years of age or older. A person 21 years of age or older may:
A. Use, possess or transport marijuana accessories and use, possess or transport up to 2 1/2 ounces of prepared marijuana or a combination of marijuana and marijuana concentrate, which may include no more than 5 grams of marijuana concentrate;
B. Transfer or furnish, without remuneration, up to 2 1/2 ounces of marijuana or a combination of marijuana and marijuana concentrate, which may include no more than 5 grams of marijuana concentrate, and up to 6 immature plants or seedlings to a person who is 21 years of age or older;

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They arested a patient in fairfield with 14g of shatter.

If it is called shatter specifically they are saying its a different thing. Similar to crack and cocaine hydrochloride(powder)

Lots of people say they are patients when they aren't, or they don't renew their patient card because it cost a couple hundred bucks year. If the dude was a patient at the time, hopefully he goes to trial.

The maine medical marijuana law considers shatter the same thing as flowers. It is all "prepared marijuana" according to the mmj laws and statues.

1.17.4 Prepared marijuana. Prepared marijuana means the dried leaves and flowers of the marijuana plant that require no further processing, and any mixture or preparation of those dried leaves and flowers, including but not limited to tinctures, ointments, and other preparations. It does not include the seeds, stalks, leaves that are disposed of and not dried for use and roots of the marijuana or other ingredients in goods prepared for human consumption or use

I don't know about Maine but RI banned shatter because some yahoos blew up a building doing a butane extraction indoors improperly. RI even banned the glass tubes typically used to make BHO. You can still buy rosin in the RI Compassion Centers so it had nothing to do with potency. The local Compassion Center actually had an alcohol extraction ignite so I believe they even stopped alcohol extractions. Co2 won't explode and Rosin has no issues so both extractions are still available legally. Personally, I was bummed when BHO was banned in RI because I counted on it so badly... I actually much prefer Rosin now because it tastes better. Now I just need to fix the yield issues...